"It is a shame that you should spend all night in the fields for nothing." As she was speaking I heard James come downstairs with the valises.

As he went past he told me he already had the horses tied under the trees.
I nodded to him, and bade him go on, and he went out into the yard and so through the stables.
"I had best go help your father put the things away," I said.

"They will not be here, at any rate, until the lights of the house are all out." We went upstairs together and found my Cousin Tom already busy: he had my clothes all in a great heap, ready to carry down to the hiding-hole above the door; my papers he already had put away into the little recess behind the bed, and the books, most of which had not my name in them, he designed to carry to his own chamber.
We worked hard at all this--my Cousin Tom in a kind of fever, rolling his eyes at every sound; and, at the last, we had all put away, and were about to close the door of the hiding-hole.

Then my Cousin Dorothy held up her hand.
"Hush!" she said; and then, "There was a step on the paved walk.".